배우기 한자를 읽고 쓰는 방법
어떤은 한순간에 50의 000의 다른 한자 정도가 있었다는 것을 배우기 위하여 떨어져 위협될지도 모른다 (몇몇 견적에 의하여). 다행히, 이 수는 단순화된 컴퓨터 글꼴 (두 배 전통적인 글꼴을 위해 저것)를 위해 대략 6500에 아래로 깍았다. 저것은 지금도 달려들 것이다 누군가를 위한 큰 수 인가, 그래서 배울지 어느 특성을 몇이 특성이 배워야 중국 제자 하는, 그리고 어떻게 당신이 알고 있는지 질문은 되는가?
이 질문에 응답하는 일반적인 기준은 중국 대륙에 있는 전형적인 신문을 이용하기 위한 것이다. 특성이 인쇄 매체에서 상용되는 주에 일정하게 연구된다. 신문에서 이용된 특성의 100%년 승인을 달성하기 위하여는, 당신은 대략 3000의 특성 (대만에 있는 전통적인 특성을 위해 4000)를 알고 있을 필요가 있을 것입니다. 그것은 이 3000의 특성에서만 집중하는 발견 사전에 일반적이다. 목표가인 무슨 이렇게 당신이 알고 있을 이니까, 질문은 당신이 대략 그들을 배우는 가는 방법가 되는가? 당신은 사전의 페이지로 것 정당한 돌고 일 당 약간 특성을 배우는 시작하는가? 당신은 할 수 있었다, 그러나 매우 더 쉬운 (능률적인) 방법이 있다.
당신은 67% 승인의 수준에 서만 얻기 위하여 400의 상용되는 특성을 배울 필요가 있다. 이렇게 그것은 더 적은으로 위에 움직이기 전에 이 400의 특성을, 첫째로 공부하는 사용했다 그들을 이해된다. 당신이 당신이 다시 알고 있는 특성을 볼 때마다, 당신은 당신의 마음에 있는 저 승인 본을 강화하고 있다. 게다가, 과정은 배우기의 과정에서, 당신이 또한 일 것이기 배우기 이기 때문에, 더 쉽게 된다 급진파 연루되는, 그래서 새로운 특성은 다만 당신이 이미 알고 있는 특성을 변경하는 포함하고, 보다는 오히려 처음부터 그들을 배우는 것을 한. 일단 당신이 이 마술 400 표에 얻으면, 당신은 88% 승인 수준에 당신을 도중 내내 얻을 다음 600의 특성을 배우기에 그 때 종사할 수 있다.
이것이 소리가 나는 것처럼 쉬운, 많은 것은 밖으로 물자를 거기 사용하지 않는다 이 개념을 공부한다. 가르치는 2 교과서에 빠른 섬광은 바빴던을 위한 특성을 가르치는 불 (제 427 가장 공유지)를 위한 특성을 가르치는 용 (제 659 일반적인 특성)를 위한 특성을 가르치는 특성을 1개 쓰는 방법, 또 다른 한개 및 또 다른 한개를 보여주었다 (제 672 가장 공유지). And this was the first lesson! It is easy to see why many students may give up learning how to read and write, when having to use methods like this.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:43 am
“You only need to learn the 400 most commonly used characters to get to the level of 67% recognition”
Does that mean you’ll be able to understand 67% of a Newspaper? No! You’ll be lucky if you can understand 3%.
This is just a little lie teachers and books and the like tell students to get them to study. It not only happens in Chinese, it happens in English and Russian and many other languages. They tell English students that 60% of a typical English Newspaper is made up of less than a hundred words used over and over again. But when you find out that these are function words,( the, or, but, a), you realize that these aren’t enough to gain an understanding of what’s going on.
With Chinese, it’s not how many characters you know, it’s how many combinations, how many compounds. It took me well over 2000 before I was able to read an article with out having to look something up. Well over 3000 before I was able to read a Newspaper from cover to cover. But just knowing those 3000+ characters wasn’t enough. I had to know the tens of thousands of compounds that they made up.
If you want to learn to read and write in Chinese, be prepared to work at it for a few years. And I do mean work at it. You can actually learn to recognize 3000 characters in just over a year, if you put your mind to it. Writing takes the longest time.
Learning to speak, which is really the main purpose of ChineseLearnOnline, can be done in as little as a year, if you’re able to hear it every day. You won’t be able to understand radio news broadcasts; that take another year or so. But you will be able to understand the people around you. Here’s the catch though, the longer you keep you mouth shut and just listen, the better your understanding will be and the better your pronunciation will be.
I know this goes against what many of these sites say. They say you should practice speaking at every opportunity. I disagree, here’s why. I speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese fluently. I studied Mandarin in the U.S. And China about 15 years ago. I did the usual. Memorized phrases, characters. Practiced speaking whenever and where ever I could. I was a true believer in the “learn a little use it a lot” method. But I still speak with a bit of an accent. And even though I’ve worked as a Mandarin/English translator in China and the U.S., there are still things that fly right by me.
Cantonese and Shanghainese are two languages that I have never studied. I’ve never cracked open a book in these languages. I have never asked anyone to translate something for me or for any help with these languages. Yet Cantonese and Shanghainese are languages that I speak and understand at Native level. Unlike Mandarin, I have never studied tones for Cantonese. They don’t even come to mind when I’m speaking Cantonese, they just come out right. I’m not Asian, but some people in Shanghai truly believe I was born there.
Well, why do I have a Native level of Shanghainese and Cantonese and not in the language that I studied? Because for these two languages, I didn’t study, I just listened. The languages grew in me like English did when I was a child. And the cool thing about it is that I absorbed both of them at the same time.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Thanks Jemini. I really appreciate your insights (that is what this blog is all about!). You are right that recognition doesn’t equal understanding, but I still think there is value to being able to recognize characters even if the overall meaning isn’t clear. There are different levels of understanding, and to me getting to this level of recognition is a step up from staring at text and being completely clueless as to what it represents.
Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of my users on the new Premium Plus plan which has given me further insights on what their strengths and weaknesses are and what can be improved in this course. I really appreciate comments like yours that tell me what has worked and what hasn’t worked for you since that helps me set the direction on what areas this course should focus on in the future.
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:46 am
Who wrote those characters you have in the picture?
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Actually, it was the handiwork of one of my users. I took it (with permission) from his posting elsewhere.